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Red status light always on BCM450

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wacker43

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Jun 5, 2007
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I have a BCM 450 R6.0 that has a red status light even after I clear alarms and reset status light. I installed a patch inn June, which was SU 003201101-2. If I do a reboot, it will clear, but always comes back on after an alarm, then will not ever go out. Wondering if anyone has had this problem....Thanks
 
I stated in the post, that it is on even after I clear the alarms. There was an alarm in there for the T1 being in free run, but I cleared all those and reset the LED's, and it does not go out.
 
You have to figure it out using a combination of the Power and Status lights and by what state the system is actually in.

From the BCM450 Install manual

System status LEDs states and descriptions.
Power Status Description

LED states seen during Start up sequence

Solid yellow Solid yellow Power applied to system
Solid yellow Off Power on self test (POST). Lasts for 9 seconds.
Solid yellow Solid yellow System initializing (lasts 14 seconds).
Solid green Solid yellow Kernel initialization (lasts 8 seconds)or Safe OS.
Solid green Blink yellow Waiting for user input on Multi-image hard drive CLI
Solid red Solid red Image installation in progress (Multiimage hard drive)
Solid red Blink red Error during image installation (Multiimage hard drive)
Solid green Blink green Services initializing (lasts 1 minute).
Solid green Solid green Normal operation.
Solid green Solid red Services initialization failed.


LED states seen during Safe Mode start up sequence

Solid red Solid green System running with factory default settings enabled.
Solid red Solid red System running in Software Reset mode.
Solid red Blink yellow System running in Configuration Reset mode.


LED states seen during shut down sequence or failure

Solid green Blink yellow Graceful shutdown in progress.
Off Solid yellow Graceful shutdown completed.
Solid red Blink yellow Overheat detected. Thermal
shutdown completed.
Solid red Solid red Power spike or Rail power fluctuation detected.
Blink red Solid red Rail power fluctuation. Power Monitor Shutdown completed.
Solid yellow Solid red Power spike shutdown completed (temperature and Rail power ok).
Off Off No power, system is shut down
(power cable is disconnected

Start-up Profile LED states (seen only during initial system install or staging)

Blink Yellow Blink Yellow Start-up Profile executing.
Solid Green Solid Green Start-up Profile successfully applied.
Blink Yellow Blink Red Start-up Profile failure.
 
Thanks for the info, I have never seen this in any BCM manual.. Great to know.
 
No, not yet... currently there are NO alarms at all in the log, other then me logging on, and the Status light is still RED. Weird..May just put the newest SU patch on it and see if that takes care of it.
 
The alarm log is blank other than your log in? The log GUI on the 450 retains what ever was in there prior to the reboot so it should at the very least have start up messages.
 
Just so I haven't misunderstood, are you talking about the status light on the BCM450 or the light on a module in one of the slots?
 
Or the RAID light? If you don't have a redundant drive installed that will be red.
 
I had this same issue. I did a reboot and it's ran clean for months now.
 
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